Sentence examples for public addicted from inspiring English sources

Its recommendations also provide political cover if Congress or the administration wants to take on the powerful cellphone industry lobby and an American public addicted to cellphones and other forms of electronic communication.

In another decade or so, engineers will exhaust options for packing more computing power into ever tinier spaces, a consequence viewed with dread by device manufacturers, sensor developers, and a public addicted to ever smaller and more powerful devices.

The routine headline depictions of pundits and politicians "destroying" and "slamming" one another is not the product of an irate and out-of-touch media, it is supply and demand for a public addicted to feeling validated in a squabble.

Years of unaccountable rule have left hugely swollen, often venal bureaucracies, creaky courts, nasty security services spoiled by privilege, and publics addicted to unsustainable subsidies for such things as food and energy.Other places have faced similar difficulties, but usually in a more helpful context.

However, our pattern of results were consistent with previous studies using the AMIQ [ 20], where the public viewed persons addicted to heroin significantly more negatively than persons addicted to alcohol.

The bloated public sector was addicted to outsize salaries and pensions, patronage was rampant, and tax evasion seemed to outpace soccer as the national sport.

By the time Antonis Samaras became Prime Minister in the summer of 2012, Greece was still living up to its reputation as "the last Soviet economy". The bloated public sector was addicted to outsize salaries and pensions, patronage was rampant, and tax evasion seemed to outpace soccer as the national sport.

In practice, however, Perry comes across as a relentlessly clean-limbed public school type, addicted to tennis, alpine sports and PG Wodehouse and equipped – like many of Le Carré's characters – with a streak of romantic patriotism that's survived his disquiet about Iraq and British complicity in torture.

ATHENS — Locals called Pittaki Street a "public toilet". Drug addicts and petty criminals frequented the narrow lane, steps from a popular plaza where tourists exploring Greece angle for shots of the looming Acropolis.

As long as the public perception of "addict" is a selfish, immoral person who acts out of unprovoked malice, we will never break out of the cycle of shame and discouragement that prevents alcoholics and drug abusers from seeking treatment.

The argument for safe spaces is that it's better for both users and the public to have addicts injecting indoors in a place where they won't die, rather than in a high-risk place like a park, alley, sidewalk, or indoors alone.